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The 30 Best DVDs of 2024

The 30 Best DVDs of 2024

PopMatters‘ 30 Best DVDs of 2024 hereby presents a glorious cavalcade, a prestigious panorama, a scintillating smorgasbord of classic films (and one newbie).

On Satyajit Ray’s Make Believe World in The Hero

On Satyajit Ray’s Make Believe World in The Hero

The Hero has deliciously surreal nightmares of obvious symbolism -- skeletons under piles of money, a nightclub in a spectral forest -- and these seem to give Satyajit Ray and Subrata Mitra special chiaroscuro joy.

The 100 Essential Directors Part 7: Kenji Mizoguchi to Satyajit Ray

The Chess Players (Shatranj ki Khilari) (1977)